Posts by Pascal Monett

Blutooth security

Glad to see that there are people who are keeping the industry on their toes on the matter of security. Unfortunately, automakers are still dragging their feet on that particular question.

So, until Blutooth security is wound up tight enough to force automakers to do it right, I don't see that much will change for consumers.

The specs can be complete and detailed, if the implementation sucks, there will always be vulnerabilities.

"that won't happen without meaningful reforms"

Indeed. So make a meaningful reform, and not this patsy of an excuse for one. Getting authorization from an FBI attorney ? Yeah, that's going to be a real hurdle. Why not just ask the janitor while you're at it ?

"on by default"

So, Plex has joined Facebook, uh, sorry, Meta, in the screw-your-users-we're-selling-advertising-data market.

On by default. And you can turn it off. Yeah, sure, until the next update resets it to on. Oops, sorry, "honest" mistake, we won't do it again. At least not until the next update . . .

Ah, Zuckerberg, who would have guessed that a uni drop-out like yourself would be a trendsetter in the 3rd millenium ?

Okay, the wrong type of trend, but still . . .

Activist investor

As soon as I read those words, I think of some asshole whose only interest is gutting the company to bolster the stock price, selling at immense profit and leaving everyone who actually worked in the dust.

Not a ringing endorsement.

"the civil aviation sector of terrorist Russia"

Um, it's terrorist Putin. It's his fault. Given the vast number of Russians who fled the country to avoid being drafted into this "special military operation", I doubt that there are that many Russians who are really into invading Ukraine. I think most of them do it because Russia is a dictatorship wearing democracy as sheep's clothing so if they don't, there's a 9mm bullet waiting for them back in the Rodina.

Now maybe, just maybe, if the Russian army was properly equipped and supplied, there would be a bit more enthusiasm on the front, but I am under the impression that the only Russians supporting this SMO are the ones who are not on the front.

In any case, this whole mess is Putin's fault and no one else's. The Russian people were not clamoring for a chance to invade Ukraine in 2019, or before.

P.S. : I do understand that Ukraine isn't really big on splitting hairs at this point.

The absence of backlighting

Um, it's a wireless keyboard. You state that its two batteries should last 36 months. If it had backlighting, I'd wager you'd be complaining that the batteries last only 3 weeks.

Personally, I am at an age where backlighting is now a requirement for me to properly see which key I am bashing. As such, this keyboard is out of the question for me, but I do have to admit that it looks nice.

So, Musk is digging the hole ever deeper

Yeah, don't pay your rent, your fines or anything you think you can avoid, that way you'll be able to cry about injustice and bias in front of the judge sending you to jail.

Because that is where your casual disregard for everything democratic is going to send you (I hope).

It's a nice kick in the teeth

Shows Nadella just how much bloat is not needed to make an Operating System.

Unfortunately, however much I wish to salute this NTwhatever guy, his efforts are doomed to interest the same category of computer nerds that run Linux.

And they're not going to be interested in spending time on a Windows version when they've already got much better.

But hey, points for trying.

"the video version also impacted nervous systems"

I wonder how that translates to YouTube ?

Not all videos have the same impact on the nervous system, I guess . . .

"a multi-billion-dollar crypto asset securities fraud"

Oh, so a basic crypto scheme then, right ?

And Terraform Labs "pledges" to continue the fight, just like Kwon promised he was not on the run ?

You have to have money to fight in court. TL has billions of debt. They won't fight anything any better than they managed their funny money.

These guys are history.

Ah, the good old days

When Borkzilla had a testing department and bothered itself enough to make sure everything worked as well as possible. Bill Gates having demonstrated a BSOD on stage must have been quite the incentive.

Unfortunately, Nadella on stage with a BSOD won't change anything these days. What a shame.

"proprietary gatekeeping wrapped in open washed clothing"

You remember Microsoft's Monkey Boy ? Ballmer. The one who said Open Source was a cancer.

He's metatstased. This is the result.

The only thing is, it's not important. The only ones who will subscribe to this are companies who had no intention of actually respecting Open Source, but are keen on paying lip service to it. For the creds. Before fucking it all over.

Nobody paying attention will run along with this. This is just Big Capital pulling the wool over the unwary.

Unfortunately, there's one born every minute, eh ?

"the information we know and can share is in the security bulletins"

So, nothing then. There's nothing you know that you can share, and it's likely that there's not much you know.

I hope you thought to encrypt data and salt the hashes. I guess we'll see.

So, still no solution for securing against physical access ?

What a surprise. Especially since, if you've got physical access, why bother with booting the machine ? Take the drive out and hook it up to your miscreant PC via USB and all the software you need.

Job done, and Windows is none the wiser.

"gross negligence"

Indeed. It was highly negligent to base a commercial campaign on the premise that autopilot was a good name.

I'm betting it sold more cars. I don't think those additional sales will balance the incoming lawsuits.

Eh, American capitalism.

"Nvidia execs were bullish"

After tripling revenue ? You bet.

It must be raining hookers and blow in the boardroom. They'll have time to recover by the time the next billion-dollar revenue is set up.

Hmm. Must start thinking about buying Nvidia stock . . .

Un-be-liev-able

I think I'm just going to have to start investing in Capita stock. They fail and fail again, and yet they still keep on raking in the millions.

Does Capita have dirt on the current administrative officials ? And their spouses ? And their children ?

Just wondering . . .